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Title: Teach Yourself Visual J++ in 21 Days by Patrick Winters, David Olhasso, Laura Lemay, Charles Perkins ISBN: 1-57521-158-0 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 1.67 (12 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: More like 210 days
Comment: I'm not very happy with this book. I'm spending more time emailing for help than learning anything about Java or working with Visual J++. The software provided on the enclosed CD and the text's instructions parted ways by the middle of the first chapter. I can't finish an exercise without getting stuck and having to wait a couple of days for an answer to my questions. I'm about ready to return this thing to the bookstore from whence it came.

Rating: 1
Summary: Sam's Teach yourself Visual J++ in 21 days
Comment: Like most other books published by Sam's, Teach yourself Visual J++ in 21 days really lacks any learning value. Subjects are often incomplete, wordy or skip important explainations. In addition to it's lack of quality, this book has several mistypes or mistakes. I would not recommend this book even to an experienced OOP programmer wanting to get a grasp on J++.

Rating: 1
Summary: Even with an editor, it's full of errors
Comment: You would think, with an editor (Patrick Winters, who should keep his day job), that this book would have less than the usual number of errors and typos found in a computer book. Instead, it has just as many, if not more. How frustrating! O'Reilly and a few others do it right; why not Sams?

Errors aside, the book has that 'written by a committee' feel, and I found myself consulting other books to figure out concepts that made no sense in this one.

The new edition of the book was scheduled for release in January 1999; it still hasn't seen the light of day, over a year later. What does that say?